Postgraduate Research Associate
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Chris is a postgraduate research associate in Princeton's environmental policy program in the School of Public and International Affairs, where he is working on biodiversity conservation through the lens of agricultural land-use change. Chris earned his PhD after defended his dissertation in May of 2022. As demographic, technological, and environmental forces change the spatial distribution of agriculture, Chris is particularly interested in regions where agriculture is being abandoned or repurposed, and the environmental trade-offs these changes represent. Where does abandonment occur, and to what extent is it durable? Where will these transitions present opportunities for habitat regeneration in former agricultural fields, and how might policy be designed to harness these opportunities and encourage conservation? In places where agricultural expansion is necessary, can spatial land-use prioritization tools help minimize biodiversity loss? Chris aims to answer these questions by leveraging global datasets and geospatial analysis tools while drawing on the fields of ecology, conservation biology, environmental science, and economics.
Chris graduated from the University of Michigan in 2012, and prior to graduate school, he worked at the nonprofit Sustainable Conservation in San Francisco, working to encourage river restoration in California’s Central Valley and prevent the use of invasive plants in gardening and landscaping through the PlantRight program.
Monday, August 15, 2022
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM EDT